Marlyn Glen today released a reply from Health
Secretary Nicola Sturgeon showing that the initial revenue allocation
from the Scottish Government to NHS Tayside fell last year in real terms
and will increase by less than one per cent in the next financial year.

Ms. Glen said that the figures described "an
unsatisfactory level of investment that will create marked difficulties
for the health service in Tayside in the new financial year."

She added, " The increase in the SNP’s allocations to
the health service in Tayside are failing to keep up with the increase
in allocations made by the previous Labour-Lib Dem Scottish Executive.

Ms. Glen said that the figures show that in the three
last years of the Labour-Lib Dem Scottish Executive the allocation to
NHS Tayside increased by £24 million, £21 million, and £17 million
respectively.

She said that in the two years of the SNP Government,
the allocation to NHS Tayside fell in this financial year by £600,000.

"Next year it will rise by £3.7 million, the
equivalent of 0.6 per cent., " she said.